How to buy music by today’s young hip bands.

1. Order the limited edition cassette (you don’t really go around listening to cassettes, but this is the format they’ve chosen).

2. Receive cassette.  The band put their tunes on the cheapest, most low-grade looking thing they could find.  Charming in its way, but this thing will snap after three plays. Make immediate digital transfer.   Transfer sounds OK, has murky charm.  Put cassette in a drawer.

3. Oh wait, the songs are available as free downloads on some blog. And they sound way better than the transfers you just made.

4. Download better-sounding versions.  Erase your own inferior transfers.  Entire cassette-purchasing transaction has now been rendered purely symbolic.

5. Discover that another cassette by some young band is available.  Also, having wised up, find the songs can be downloaded for free at some blog.

6. Download the songs.  Order the cassette, as a symbolic gesture, and to be a nice guy.

7. Receive cheap-ass cassette, look at it, put it in a drawer.

  1. Date Posted Icon 4th January 2011
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QuestionThank you very much for your comments on my tormented spaceman. I use to indicate the sources of my posts but, you know, sometimes they can't be found Answer

No problem, I know how it goes.
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“Baggs” by Shonen Knife is a really good song and I posted it here and nobody gave a shit
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  1. Date Posted Icon 31st January 2010
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